As NASA prepares for its first ever mission to planet of Mars, the agency is starting to realize those bulky old spacesuits hanging in the closet may need some serious upgrades.
Space suits will also need to improve substantially so that they can be worn over long periods.
New suit designs will require the possibility of safe in-suit waste management and water provision, while future exploration space suits will demand no more than 10 percent of a wearer’s strength for movement, as well as a significant reduction in mass to less than 100 pounds in total.
NASA also plans to add voice controls and location tracking inside the suits.
The agency is also in the process of picking the landing zone for the first ever manned mission to Mars while at the same time testing a stationary car-sized Mars lander scheduled to launch in March 2016.
The mission is expected to be the first mission devoted to understanding the interior structure of the Red planet.
Examining the planet’s deep interior could reveal clues about how all rocky planets, including Earth, formed and evolved, NASA said.
The lander is called InSight or Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport.
The agency will hold a forum in Texas in October to discuss 100-kilometer-wide “exploration zones” that could work as landing sites.
The sites would need to have enough resources – such as sub-surface ice – to support human visitors as well as being scientifically interesting.
“This is going to be a hot debate,” said Jim Green, head of Nasa’s Planetary Science Division. “It will start exactly the conversation we need to be able to architect what a station on Mars would look like, and how it would operate.”
Once the sites have been chosen, Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and the Mars Odyssey spacecraft will continue to scan the sites from space. The idea of a manned mission to Mars has been around for years.
The controversial Mars One project planned to turn a space mission into a TV reality show.
NASA speaks out on the imminent asteroid attack and destruction of Earth in September More recently, Nasa successfully tested its Orion spacecraft which will one day take human beings the 225,300,000 kilometers to Mars.
When the manned mission finally does take place, astronauts will be able to lay rest to the theory that a pyramid on the Red Planet represents and ancient alien civilization

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How do they intend to relaunch from the red planet

is there gravity on mars?

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bleepishilove:
is there gravity on mars?
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Yes but less than earth

This is something that should have been done a long time ago no thanks to the bereaucracy and dithering of NASA.

shotster50:
This is something that should have been done a long time ago no thanks to the bereaucracy and dithering of NASA.

Going to Mars has alot of challenges that scientists have to iron out before going or else it is going to be a disaster for the mission and for the astronauts.

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Blakjewelry:

Going to Mars has alot of challenges that scientists have to iron out before going or else it is going to be a disaster for the mission and for the astronauts.

True however there has been many proposals for this operation over the years and all have been stifled by the divided Government policies... There hasnt been a significant effort to get man on the moon again or even further since 1969...